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For all the small town-big city rivalry, the ties between Castleford Tigers and Leeds Rhinos bind them like few other finalists. Not least in the one head-to-head confrontation that can determine the outcome of today’s first all-Yorkshire Challenge Cup showdown at Wembley since the Tigers’ most recent triumph there against Hull Kingston Rovers in 1986.

Rob Burrow, now 31, was the first coach of Daryl Clark, ten years younger, as Airedale High dominated the national schools’ competition for three years. “We’d get to parade around Wembley and, the best bit, watch the final for free,” said Clark, at a time